Specialists in history and media education from Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, The Netherlands and United Kingdom have been working for over a year in order to answer the question: How can learning history help young people become more media literate? The first results are now becoming visible in the form of an observatory on media and history on TV and the web in the project countries. Soon, more results will be made available before the project will be completed on the 1st of September in 2019. These results include a digital learning environment, a training package on media literacy,...

On 9 and 10 February 2016, an intermediate transnational meeting took place in Piacenza (Italy) for the “Media and History” project. In the project, specialists in history and media education from Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom work together to encourage history educators to use multimedia resources to help students become more media literate. The team, consisting of representatives of all the participating countries, has made important decisions on the next steps for the project. EUROCLIO was represented by Steven Stegers and Laura Steenbrink. In the upcoming months, we mainly focus our attention on...